The Eastern Crusade Movement (MCO), a political group that separated from the 84th List of the Cabildo Abierto party, has distanced itself from the proposal that is being promoted by a civil group that aims to give them the benefit of the house arrest of dozens of repressors, murderers and human rights violators of the past Uruguayan civic-military dictatorship.
In a public letter issued this November 9, signed by its leader Jonathan Padrón, the MCO also detached itself from the letter presented to Luis Lacalle Pou by the so-called Montevideo Forum, which proposes exactly the same: liberate the repressors who are in Domingo Arena prison.
“In view of the letter delivered to the President of the Republic requesting the release of the prisoners who are serving a sentence in the Domingo Arena prison, since we identified many members of the group that promote this initiative who belong to list 84 from press reports. , or they militated for this group when it was still a member of the Cabildo Abierto party, it is of order to clarify that this group left the Cabildo Abierto party due to serious discrepancies with its leadership ”, says the letter from the MCO.
“Since then the directive of this group remains in force, not so many of its militants who today may or may not be integrating the ranks of the Cabildo Abierto party,” he adds.
And he concludes: “That is why we are emphatic in communicating that the Eastern Crusade Movement (List 84) has no link with the members who promote this initiative, nor does it endorse the request for the letter in any of its terms.”
Repressors released
For Mercedes vigil and his movement, the large number of repressors who are in jail today after being duly tried are “political prisoners” and he assures that “in Domingo Arena there is no one who is accused of crimes against humanity. What is dangerous is that people in criminal law are convicted of conviction, the law is made retroactive and the Treaty of Rome is violated, “said the controversial writer in an interview at the end of October in Teledoce.
Despite being in the military for house arrest for all these repressors, the novelist assures that she does not come “to defend anyone who has violated human rights” but that “there is no evidence that those in Domingo Arena have violated human rights.”
For her, “we have to turn the page” and asserts that “if she had a relative in Domingo Arena, she would have denounced since 1985 that international treaties are violated”.
“The expiration law was a Greek amnesia law. There was pressure, in 1996 there was also pressure. The danger of republican democracy has been stalked by the military who were still in power. You have to turn the page without ignoring the non-transferable pain, the collateral damage. What a more important moment than this to defend the Constitution. Never a sentence of the SPJ can go against the Constitution ”, argued Vigil.
